Example Sentences

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Overdressed salads with too many carrots and not enough lettuce.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

“They’re not the only company doing the American-made thing,” Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, told me.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the frenzied world described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year investigation and indictment of “fast fashion.”

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

Overdressed is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

Overdressed, the latest worldly novel under their arms, they strutted the narrow pavements of their tiny world, immensely pleased with themselves.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon